Syrian troops attack Deraa, day after referendum offer (Reuters)

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• Syrian troops attack Deraa, day after referendum offer (Reuters)
• Iran announces nuclear advances but offers new talks (Reuters)
• Huge prison fire kills over 350 inmates in Honduras (Reuters)
• Karzai says Afghanistan joins Taliban peace talks: report (Reuters)
• Fighters, radar, marine patrols top Asia's military wish-list (Reuters)
• How the Deep Freeze in Kabul Means Trouble After Things Thaw (Time.com)
• High-level drug meeting focuses on Afghanistan (AP)
• Israeli leader pays historic visit to Cyprus (AP)
• Ecuador court upholds pro-Correa libel verdict (AP)
• Amnesty: Libyan militias commit war crimes (AP)
• Birthday turns into memorial for NKorean leader (AP)
• Farmers sue to regain control of Canadian Wheat Board (Reuters)
• Africa Rising: Ethiopia moves to diversify exports (The Christian Science Monitor)
• How to Interpret Iran's New Nuclear Advances (Time.com)
• Ugandan minister raids gay-rights workshop (The Christian Science Monitor)

Syrian troops attack Deraa, day after referendum offer (Reuters) Posted: 15 Feb 2012 11:59 PM PST Reuters - Syrian troops attacked Deraa on Thursday to try to stamp out rebels in the border city where the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad's rule began last March, residents and opposition activists said.

Iran announces nuclear advances but offers new talks (Reuters) Posted: 15 Feb 2012 05:35 PM PST Reuters - Iran proclaimed advances in nuclear know-how, including new centrifuges able to enrich uranium much faster, a move that may heighten its confrontation with the West over suspicions it is seeking the means to make atomic bombs.

Huge prison fire kills over 350 inmates in Honduras (Reuters) Posted: 15 Feb 2012 08:17 PM PST Reuters - More than 350 convicts died screaming and spluttering when a huge fire ripped through a prison in Honduras, reducing large swathes of the complex to a blackened husk.

Karzai says Afghanistan joins Taliban peace talks: report (Reuters) Posted: 15 Feb 2012 06:28 PM PST Reuters - The U.S. and Afghan governments have begun secret three-way talks with the Taliban, Afghan President Hamid Karzai told The Wall Street Journal, in a move that could bolster U.S.-led efforts to convene fully fledged peace talks within months.

Fighters, radar, marine patrols top Asia's military wish-list (Reuters) Posted: 15 Feb 2012 10:58 PM PST Reuters - Singapore hosted military brass from across Asia this week at the region's biggest arms and aerospace bazaar, almost 70 years to the day since it fell to Japanese forces sweeping across Southeast Asia during World War Two.

How the Deep Freeze in Kabul Means Trouble After Things Thaw (Time.com) Posted: 15 Feb 2012 11:25 PM PST Time.com - Children are dying in camps for displaced people but the situation augurs graver and more expensive problems for the Karzai government

High-level drug meeting focuses on Afghanistan (AP) Posted: 16 Feb 2012 12:25 AM PST AP - Representatives from dozens of nations are supposed to focus on the menace of drugs in Afghanistan when they meet Thursday in Vienna. But with powerful foreign ministers among those attending, Syria is expected to dominate talks on the sidelines.

Israeli leader pays historic visit to Cyprus (AP) Posted: 16 Feb 2012 12:19 AM PST AP - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu embarked Thursday on a historic visit to Cyprus, reflecting rapidly shifting alliances in this turbulent part of the world.

Ecuador court upholds pro-Correa libel verdict (AP) Posted: 15 Feb 2012 11:20 PM PST AP - Ecuador's highest court upheld early Thursday a criminal libel verdict favoring President Rafael Correa, sentencing three newspaper executives and a columnist to three years in prison each and ordering them to pay a total of $42 million in damages.

Amnesty: Libyan militias commit war crimes (AP) Posted: 15 Feb 2012 04:25 PM PST AP - Armed militias now rule much of Libya, Amnesty International said Wednesday, accusing them of torturing detainees deemed loyal to the ousted regime of Moammar Gadhafi and driving entire neighborhoods and towns into exile.

Birthday turns into memorial for NKorean leader (AP) Posted: 16 Feb 2012 12:51 AM PST AP - North Korea commemorated Kim Jong Il's 70th birthday Thursday with the flowers that bear his name, a military parade and pledges of loyalty to the son who has taken his place.

Farmers sue to regain control of Canadian Wheat Board (Reuters) Posted: 15 Feb 2012 01:22 PM PST Reuters - Several farmer organizations that support the Canadian Wheat Board's grain marketing monopoly are launching a court action aimed at restoring farmer control of the board and collecting C$17 billion ($17 billion) in damages for farmers.

Africa Rising: Ethiopia moves to diversify exports (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 15 Feb 2012 10:17 AM PST The Christian Science Monitor - About three hours south of the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, lays a sprawling, 120,000-hectare field planted with hundreds of thousands of grape vines in tightly packed rows. Workers in blue coveralls cultivate the vines, looking for pesky diseases, while men stand atop ladders with slingshots in tow to fend off hungry birds.

How to Interpret Iran's New Nuclear Advances (Time.com) Posted: 15 Feb 2012 11:25 PM PST Time.com - The nuclear advances announced Wednesday by Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad are a prelude to an expected new round of talks between Tehran and Western powers

Ugandan minister raids gay-rights workshop (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 15 Feb 2012 08:46 AM PST The Christian Science Monitor - As Uganda’s parliament begins discussions once more on an antihomosexuality bill, the Ugandan minister of ethics has accompanied police to shut down a workshop in Entebbe for gay rights activists and to arrest its organizer.

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